VOTER TURNOUT APATHY: Multiparty elections from 1995: Why voter apathy galore?

>In My Book of Things, the title to the leading front-page report of The Citizen on December 15 this year takes the cake! ‘Local elections a farce,’ simply read the headline; but it told us so much in so few words what’s happening to ‘Tanzanian democracy’ in general  – and elections specifically!

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Apr

Voter apathy portends grim future

The foundation of democracy is the right to vote. For this to work, the majority of voting-age people are supposed to exercise that right. When people lose faith in the voting process, it is a dangerous trend, a symptom of great social malaise in any nation.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Sep

Turnout in Tanzanian Presidential Elections 1995-2015

The increase in registered voters between 1995 and 2015 will have been almost entirely due to young people,but that the number of youth who actually voted remained more or less the same.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Aug

Campaign to have 24m voter turnout underway

LHRC plans to deploy more than 160 activists to do the job

 

10 years ago

Daily News

04 Jun

Misenyi voter registration turnout positive

Misenyi voter registration turnout positive
Daily News
A TOTAL of 25,046 eligible voters, equivalent to 71.6 per cent of the target, have been registered in the Permanent Voters' Register (PVR) during the first phase in five wards in Misenyi District between May 21 and 27, this year, it has been disclosed. Misenyi ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Jan

OPINION: Time to end low voter turnout

>Voting is considered the most important form of political participation in a democracy. However, in recent years most election reports have indicated a fall of voter turnout in elections in both new and established democracies.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Jul

Low turnout blamed on lack of voter education

Limitations that civil societies encountered in the provision of voter education contributed to poor turnout and technical hitches during the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR); civil society organisations said yesterday.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Nov

Low turnout hits voter registration centres

>Various voter registration centres for local government elections in various streets experienced a low turnout in the city yesterday though it went well as the process entered its second day.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Oct

Turnout high in Guinea elections

Turnout in the first controversial round of Guinea’s presidential election this weekend was extremely high at almost 75 percent, the country’s electoral commission said Wednesday.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

26 Feb

Voter registration needs funding

Voter registration needs funding
Daily News
THE Coalition of Defenders of People's Constitution (UKAWA) has asked the government to avail sufficient financial resources for successful registration of voter registration in the permanent register through the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR). UKAWA ...

 

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